One Terabyte Hologram CD's?

[KingFish]

Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world's first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using Optware's revolutionary Collinear Holography.

Holographic recording technology records data on discs in the form of laser interference fringes, enabling existing discs the same size as today's DVDs to store as much as one terabyte of data (200 times the capacity of a single layer DVD), with a transfer speed of one gigabyte per second (40 times the speed of DVD). This approach is rapidly gaining attention as a high-capacity, high-speed data storage technology for the age of broadband.
Whoa! I hope this is a viable technology that comes to market with a reasonable price. -KF

Source: Optware (http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_040823.htm)

[kanezfan]

of course this will probably never see the light of day any time soon because the major companies are backing much smaller capacity technologies

[Omega65]

I'll believe it when I see it. Companies have been talking about holographic storage technologies for 20+ years.

[Sputnik]

This is a good solution to help stop piracy though. higher capacity = less chance of people doing a strait dump of the material to hard disk for instance.


then again, who am i kidding? in 2-3 years when this *may* be starting to gain steam, 1TB probably will be common place

[Geeky1]

In 2-3 years, 1TB or more should be the norm, yes. I mean, I've got 640GB in the dual athlon system now.

[kanezfan]

In 2-3 years, 1TB or more should be the norm, yes. I mean, I've got 640GB in the dual athlon system now.


yes cause we can all afford to blow as much money as you...

[Thrax]

yes cause we can all afford to blow as much of our grandparent's money as you...

Edited for accuracy.

[EMT]

Hehe...
Sounds pretty neat, I hate running out of space. But I'm not holding my breath.

[RWB]

Looks interesting, but why the hell can't they come up with a better/cheaper method for solid state storage? WHY!?!?!

[Geeky1]

yes cause we can all afford to blow as much money as you...
Yeah, well that's one of the advantages of having a job, but no bills to pay, isn't it? ;D

Edited for accuracy.
Most of my toys are paid for out of my own pocket. My grandparents have given me two desktops, and two laptops. But all of the upgrades to those (and nothing remains of either one, except the case, power supply, and optical drives out of the 1.4 TBird) the other systems, replacement parts, etc. I paid for.
So there. :p

[croc_]

Yeah, well that's one of the advantages of having a job, but no bills to pay, isn't it? ;D


Most of my toys are paid for out of my own pocket. My grandparents have given me two desktops, and two laptops. But all of the upgrades to those (and nothing remains of either one, except the case, power supply, and optical drives out of the 1.4 TBird) the other systems, replacement parts, etc. I paid for.
So there. :p

But it was still funny.

[Stitch (Guest)]

i give it a few years before its the norm.. i just found something like

http://www.optware.co.jp/english/what_040823.htm

hmm ironic? also 1 tb hd is only like 1000 so its getting alittle more common in a aspect.